Saddle-horn



(No Model) J. W. HAGGARD. SADDLE HORN.

No. 595,567. Patented De0f14, 1897.

NTTE STATES PATENT FFIQE JAMES w. HAGGARD, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SADDLE-HORN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,567, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed April 1 3, 1 8 9 6 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES WORTH HAGGARD. a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Portland, county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Saddle-Horns for Riding- Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, to wit:

The nature and object of my invention consist in providing a saddle-horn, solid or hollow, with disk or projection, ribs or flanges, legs or forks combined and united so as to give strength and resist force or strain as applied to saddle-horns as used in riding-saddles. I attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the drawings filed with my application for Letters Patent herein, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the saddle-horn comprising my invention. Fig. 2 shows a front View of the saddle-horn. Fig. 3 exhibits-a view of the saddle-horn, together with the disk or projection, ribs or flanges, legs or forks claimed by me to be an improvement in saddle-horns, with other parts of riding-saddles, including side bars and wooden forks in front and rear of the saddle-horn in riding-saddles.

I or other material, and is made solid or hollow,

as desired, and of any convenient size and proportion of parts.

In the figures of the drawings the several parts are represented as follows: A is the pommel of the saddle-horn B, the neck of the saddle-horn; G 0, legs or forks of the saddle-horn; D, the rib or flange in rear of the saddle-horn; E, the rib or flange in front of. the saddle-horn; F, disk or projection in front of the saddle-horn; G G G G, the side bars of the riding-saddle; H H, the wooden fork in front of the saddle-horn I I, the wooden fork in rear of the saddle-horn; J, groove in wooden fork H H,in which is fitted the rib or flange E; K, mortise or space on top of Wooden forkH H to receive the disk or projection F; A A A A, holes of convenient size in the legs or forks of the saddle-horn O C to insert screws or nails for fastening together the wooden fork I I, saddle-horn, and woodenfork H'H; b b, screw Serial No. 587,435. (No model.)

or nail holes for inserting screws or nails; 0 c, screw or nail holes for fastening disk or projection F to wooden fork H H 5 d d d d d d (1, screws or nails for fastening the respective parts together, as shown in the drawings.

It is intended that the legs or forks of the saddle-horn C 0, when adjusted to the ridingsaddle, may be either in a vertical position or at any desired angle deviating therefrom and with each leg or fork resting on a side bar G G G G, respectively, as shown in the drawings.

' In Fig. 3 of the drawings the wooden fork I I is fitted to and screwed fast to the saddlehorn, Fig. 1.

The saddle-horn, Fig. 1, as used in ridingsaddles is to be placed contiguous to the wooden fork H H and firmly fastened to it by means ofscrews or nails passing through the disk or projection F into the holes 0 c in the wooden fork H H, and also by ineansof screws or nails passing through the Wooden fork I I, the legs or forks of the saddle-horn O G, into the wooden fork H II. It is intended also that the parts of the saddle-horn, either solid or hollow, which I claim to be an improvement thereof and theretoto wit, the legs or forks G O, the flange in the rear of the saddle-horn D, the rib or flange in front of the saddle-horn E, with the disk or projection F- are to be made or cast with and inseparable from the saddle-horn, and thus combined is designed and intended to resist force or strain from whatsoever source or direction it may emanate or be applied, prevent the saddle from flattening or spreading, combine strength, lightness, durability, symmetry, simplicity,economy,and preservation of space inits construction as well as novelty of adj ustment and attachment to all kinds of riding-saddles as applied thereto.

I am aware that prior to my invention saddle-horns have been made with the neck of the saddle-horn hollow and also with the saddle-horn fastened to the saddle or wooden fork thereof by one or more divisions of the saddle-horn at its lower extremity made into flat or leaf-like disks or divisions nailed or screwed to the saddle or Wooden fork of the same; but I am not aware that any saddlehorn has ever been invented with the whole thereof made hollow, or with legs or forks ex tending in the same or nearly the same direction longitudinally with the neck of the saddle-horn beneath the poinmel thereof, or with the flattened surface and width of the legs or forks C C so arranged as to resist force or strain and to prevent a saddle from flattening or spreading, as is shown in said drawings, or with a rib or flange D in the rear of the saddle-horn, and with disk or projection F and rib or flange in front of the saddle-horn E, and saddle-horn attached to or fastened to ridingsaddles, combined as set forth in said drawings. 

